destroy isis at least so far does not appear to be shaping up in the way he described it on wednesday. team coverage on the isis threat. tonight we begin with steve handelsman on capitol hill. >> reporter: thanks. here in town today, the u.s. state department name, the u.s. retired marine corps retired general john allen, to spearhead what the state department's calling the global coalition. but so far, frankly, there is not much of a coalition. a coalition is the obama plan. to strike isis from the air and on the ground. but in turkey today, recruiting for the coalition, secretary of e kerry again struck out. the turks will not bomb or send troops. kerry claims he's not worried. ten arab nations have joined the coalition but not one has agreed to send troops or war planes. so far, only france, whose president was in iraq today, has agreed to join the air war. despite the obama promise. >> america will be joined by a

broad coalition of partners. >> reporter: that won support from congress and the public. but a coalition is not the key to beating isis, say some an. they say iraqi grouped forces have to regroup and force ices out of the cities it captured so american air power can decimate the isis army. >> only the united states can do that. it's good to have allies. but we are the core. >> reporter: disturbing news. the cia estimates the isis army has doubled or tripled in size. new fighters attracted by the group's victories and its brutality. 20 to 31.5 thousand isis fighters now says the cia. >> 30,000 fighters on the ground is a pretty considerable force. >> r but that is less than the group once had in iraq when it called itself al qaeda. says the former u.s. commander and cia director. >> isil in iraq should not be h big the e army and the coalition, the obama goal remains isis'

destruction. in its early phase, even the rhetoric is a work in progress. that's why secretarye serry said yesterd we're not at war. the pentagon and white house said today, we are in a war like the one we're still waging agait al qaeda. i'm steve handelsman, news4. tonight an iowa congressman suggests one way to stem the tide of isis fighters is to spy on mosques in america, specifically one in norther virginia. re steve king said this on a conservative talk radio show. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey is live outside the mosque he mentioned. julie, what's the reaction there? >> rep well, a little more on that in a minute. for starters, the congressman didn't cite this by name, but referred to it as virginia's larkest mosque. he didn't provide any evidence but suggests this mosque and others are serving as recruitment grounds for isis. here at the mosque tonight, however, they are calling those comments reprehensible.

hour after friday prayers, this mosque is quiet. thousands of northern virginia muslims gather here each week. its size seems to be one reason iowa congressman steve kg singled it out along with a mosque in minneapolis. king suggested isis is recruiting through u.s. mosques, and he says the obama administra should have operatives insid to keep watch. >> recruiting fighte for isis out of minneapol and the somali enclave. the largest mosque in virginia. all muslims are supporters of isis, but the network that flows through the mosque is certainly the communications centers. we ought to be looking at at this and people sitting in the mosques watching what's going on. >> this local leader calls king's assertion reprehensibl >> it's really reprehensible, red meat rhetoric being thrown out there. and there's no basis for it and

facts. he heads the american muslim alliance. he says king's suggestion that spies are needed here is unamerican. >> no. we don't need spies and mosques. i think we went through that with hoover, dr. martin luther king. and that didn't work either. i don't think there's a need for that. actu -- and, again, goes back to my original characteri of this being unamerican. >> reporte and he also says this mosque has an open-door policy and would welcome any member of congress to come visit. reporting live from the falls church area, i'm julie carey, news4. >> thanks, julie. w at 6:00, news4 has just learned the man indicted on three murders in alexandria will be on the move this monday. we're told charles severance will move from loudoun county to alexandria. three judges have recused themselves from the case so now the virginia supreme court is going to have to appoint a special judge to the severance case.

earlier this week, severance was charged with three murders in alexandria that spanned a decade. right now he's being held in loudoun county on an unrelated gun charge. > paralyzing guilt. that's how the sister of the navy yard gunman describes the attack almost a year later. naomi alexis, the sister of gunman aaron alexis tells the "washington post" she hopes the victims' families are healing. the post says she wanted to talk about mental health issues had your brother suffered but cancelled the interview. this tuesday marks one year since her brother, a navy contractor, killed 12 people before police shot and killed him. w clues still coming in tonight on a missing mother, wanted in the disappearance of her two young children. there have been several sightings of kathryn hoggle. she left the chick-fil-a on monday after her husband realized their two youngest children were missing. she was also spotted near century bouleva in the same area and in one of the newest sightings, rode a bus to the lake forest mall.

kristen wright is live in germantown with more on the desperate search. >> reporter: well, chris, a vigil is planned for tomorrow here at the chick-fil-a where catherine hoggle was last seen. the vigil will happen tomorrow nit at 8:00. meanwhile, a lot of new developmen in the search for catherine hoggle and her children. but still, no sign of those childr. surveillance video released late today shows catherine hoggle walking slowly through a lobby and then leaving the building at 4:30 tuesday morning. no children in sight. sarah and jacob's father has a theory to explain how his two missing childre and their mother still have not been found. >> i don't believe anything bads huh has happened. that's why it's easy for me to stay positive they're probably okay. i bee someone is helping her. >> and if someone is helping her, he adds -- >> i have no desire to press charges against you. if you bring my kids home. >> rep new learned from turner that in that surveillance video, catherine was here in a

federal office building in germantown from 7:sa 15 monday night until early tuesday. ditching her credit cards and i.d. in a bathroom. police will not confirm that location, but shared another new development. >> we've interviewed a ride-on bus driver, and he believes that catherine hoggle boarded his bus tuesday evening at about 6:30 p.m. >> reporter: police say she got on the bus next to the chick-fil-a whe she was last seen, didn't pay the fare and rode to the transit center at the lake forest mall in gaithersburg children not with her. police say the bus's camera was not working, but detectives consider the lead credible. now it's friday. no catherine, no jacob, no sarah. >> i'm holding up how i have to get my kids bac >> reporter: that surveillance o at that federal office building also shows catherine s.

>> reporter: mayor vincent gray was in china on official business for ten days. during that time, his former chauffr pled guilty to campaign finance fraud, telling a federal judge he was paid under the table to work as the mayor's driver during the 2010 campai. today gray said he didn't know mark long was being paid. >> mark long was a volunteer in the program. in the campaign. he at times was one of the people who drove me. there were other people who drove me during the cam so, no, i have no further co >> reporter: other big news that happened while fwrooi gray was out of the country, an inspector general's report critical of the district's speed camera program saying in, part, it was flawed and motivated by revenue. >> never been a revenue motivated program. it's a public sy program. and frankly, i think it demonstrat readily that it works. it gets people to slow down. and again, for those who, you kn

s murdered her this past sunday. the medical department determined she died from head trauma, strangulation and smoothing. dawit lived in a building next door to her complex. police arrested and charged him with first degre murder. police are also investigating to see if he has any connection to the murder of 43-year-old ubana two months ago. she was also strangled to death inside an apartment she shared with her sister on derby court july 4th. although both women were strangled, police caution people not to jump to conclusions. ubana's friends say she was a very kind person, and carolyn cross, well, she's remembered as a loving w. for those who don't know carolyn cross, can you tell us a little about her? >> she was the heartbeat of our agency. she didn't walk past without speaking to you, telling you have a nice day and thank you for a job well done. she was just a people person. it didn't matter what level she was on. she communicated and complimented and 3-year-old daugh last

weekend. prince georgs c corrections off say spoon was moved to clifton t. perkins hospital in jessup maryland. it's a maximum security psychiatric center. the medical director of the facility where joan rivers went into cardiac arrest is no longer working there. a spokesperson for yorkville endoscopy says dr. lawrence cohen is no longer performing procedures there. we don't know if cohen was performing the procedure on rivers' throat when she stopped breathing and went into cardiac ar last month. the new york state health department is also looking into the clinic. it's a story the news4 i team broke online this afternoon, both looming deadlines and montgomery county postponed. maryland could delay the deadline for immunizations. without it, more than 1,000 seventh graders can't attend class next week. the ste requires all seventh graders to be vaxated for t-dp within 20 school days. in montgomery in bladensburg.

tonight detectives will fan out across the neighborhood, hoping somebody can help them track down the predator. a woman walking along a wooded trail on quincy street was attacked. it happened monday evening. well before dark. new at 6:00 tonight, a woman has been carjacked and police need your help to find her car and the man who took it. fairfax county police say the woman was sitting in her car last night, texting and listening to music. she says the man opened her door and told her to get out and snatched her purse and drove off in the car. it's a blue saab 9000 and was last seen along indianhead highway in prince george's county. > s no of a wild animal spotted near a local school, although the search is far from over. two people have reported what could be a cougar, prowling near riverside elementary school in the alexandria section of fairfax county. people reported seeing the animal on this baseball field behind the school. then going into some nearb

it happened in a rural part of virginia, and it made national headlines last november. deeds, the son of virginia state senator, creigh deeds, stabbed his father, then took his own life. it was a tragedy that shed light on an ailing mental health care system and shattered a family. recently i sat down with gus deeds' as i say terks rebecca. it was hister first television interview. she told me she is ready to speak out about all of this in hopes of raising awareness about mental illness, and starting to change people's minds about how we treat it. >> the first thing you need to know about gus is he was extremely funny. >> reporter: when rebecca deeds reflects on her younger brother, gus, she talks about him in the present tense. they were the middle kids in a family with four children. and she starts to smile as she remembers days spent on their family farm with her brother. >> he was also just completely >> he was also just completely comfortabwe had to cut

a lot of waste. we consolidated offices. started sharing printers. we can walk a few feet. replaced computers, but kept the monitors. they still work fine. we even discovered that the phone company overcharged us by three million dollars! i approve this message because congress doesn't need another right winger. they need someone who can balance a budget. oh, and we definitely didn't need so many government studies.